While modern gunfighting techniques emphasize two-handed shooting with a fairly tight grip on the weapon, in the past both shooting techniques and the designs of the firearms were based around a revolver being a hand (singular) gun. Here the author demonstrates shooting both regular and heavy loads out of a single-action revolver with the traditional plow handle grips, and how to mitigate the recoil by allowing the revolver to roll upward (which also helps with a fast cocking of the gun for the next shot) and/or allowing the whole arm to rise to deal with particularly heavy recoil. Not only does it mitigate recoil making it more comfortable to shoot the weapon, but the author's tests showed that he was more accurate than with a tight grip (what he calls the "death grip") on the weapon.
I don't have a big bore single action revolver, so I probably would not be able to use this technique with any of my handguns. But those of you that have old-West style single action revolvers might be able to make use of this.
VIDEO: "Recoil Management With Heavy Six Gun Loads"
The Shooters Apprentice (16 min.)
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